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A BLUE AND WHITE KENDI A BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ BOX AND COVER

MING DYNASTY, LATE 15TH-EARLY 16TH CENTURY JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A
The compressed globular body and the spout are decorated in dark inky blue DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)
with leafy scrolling meanders bearing chrysanthemum blossoms below a band The cover is decorated in a vibrant blue with a front-facing, fve-clawed dragon
of ruyi-heads on the shoulder. The slender neck is decorated with a band of amidst cloud scrolls, enclosed within a double circle and the sides have two
stif upright leaves below a canted mouth. striding, fve-clawed dragons, each pursuing a faming pearl. The box is
4√ in. (12.3 cm.) high decorated en suite with dragons on the sides and raised on a low foot.
7√ in. (20 cm.) diam., box
$5,000-7,000 $10,000-15,000
明嘉靖 青花遊龍戲珠紋圓蓋盒 雙圈六字楷書款
PROVENANCE
1184 (mark)
Mrs. Anne Rudd Collection; Sotheby’s London, 14 November 1972, lot 378.
Eskenazi Ltd., London.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

Compare a blue and white kendi of related form and decoration, but of
slightly larger size (16 cm. high), dated to the late 15th century, illustrated by
J. A. Pope in Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956,
pl. 69, no. 29.472; and a further example dated to the 15th-early 16th century,
but with a reduced neck, illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the
Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, vol. II, Yuan and Ming Porcelains, London,
1986, pp. #546-47, no. 668.
明十五世紀末/十六世紀初 青花纏枝菊紋軍持

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